What's the best CMS for small businesses or non-profits?

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Searching for a good CMS that I could use for small 10-15 page sites with multiple contributors. The CMS I'm using for about 50 clients is starting to get dated!

Nichlas W. Andersen · Accepted Answer

If you're familiar with Jekyll or Hugo, Forestry might be a good fit :)

Philip Gwynne · Answer

I've been using Perch for years now and highly recommend it. It's the perfect fit for any type of build, big or small. As Nils' stated above, it's also brilliant at retro-fitting existing sites too. Use as much of it or as little as you need – it'll always be fast, secure and easy to use. Support is second to none too.

Paul Loffredo · Answer

This is a great little CMS, highly recommended. Perch is lightweight, extensible and damn easy.

Sam Rye · Answer

Ghost is very very good.

Sam Rye · Answer

WordPress is still a champion in this space

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Perfect for retro-fitting existing sites. But also capable of catering to huge projects. Then there's the Members App, the Shop App, the Blog App,… Absolutely love it.

mohammed · Answer

Doesn't need technical individual to setup

Michael Klanac · Answer

Some non profits have rather large sites with lots of complex content taxonomy and hierarchy which Drupal handles well.  Drupal is open source.

Souvik Das Gupta · Answer

We’ve done a bunch of projects using Craft CMS for non-profits from large content websites https://indiabioscience.org to single pagers like http://biglittlebookaward.in. The beauty of Craft CMS is that it does not come with any content / page structure assumptions, and you can hand craft each page or section, while providing a clean & simple admin interface to manage the content. Craft has a license fee, but the they offer help if the project finds it hard to fund it. Just write to them.

Evan McDaniel · Answer

Webflow has great templates, the most powerful editor I've seen, and a super-simple content editor. Combined with good hosting options, and e-commerce integrations it's a platform well suited for non-profits.

alex@lastminutelaura.ca · Answer

Exception tool. Highly recommend it!!!

Jonathan Elliman · Answer

Design a site in HTML and CSS. Add in Perch's content tags where you want to make edits and you are ready to go. Expand functionality with add-ons for shop, events, mailing lists, members or your own through the API. Extend it even further with Perch Runway. It's easy for customers to use. It's well priced. It's well supported and regularly updated. It's the only CMS I use these days, and I'm old so I've used a few!

Salah Ait Mokhtar · Answer

It looks great on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones - jakweb template was built to shine on all devices. CMS is template based, create your own with only HTML and CSS knowledge.

Derek E. Silva · Answer

I highly recommend Perch. It is easy to install, and great for retrofitting existing websites. The admin side really shines, is simple to navigate, and won't let users do dumb things easily.

Sam Rye · Answer

Weebly is a drag + drop builder which a lot of the less tech savvy folks seem to like.

Sam Rye · Answer

Some people really like Squarespace but personally I find it a bit clunky.

Judson Dunn · Answer

Very useful if you need to sell things as well.

Evgeni Dyachko · Answer

Tilda is a nice site builder with a handy editor and integrations with payment systems. It also has a code export feature to use it on your server.

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Kirby is a quite good for small websites, easy development, nice community and file based (no hustle with databases).

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Same as Kirby with a bit different approach.

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If you would need something for more complicated projects.

Sambruce Joseph · Answer

WordPress FTW!

James Blair · Answer

Statamic is one of the best flat-file CMS's -- its built on Laravel and the experience is truly exceptional for developers. Easy to use and customize for whatever your needs are.